{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-and-trustee-investment-scotland-act-2005/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-and-trustee-investment-scotland-act-2005/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2005/10",
  "legislation_title": "Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-and-trustee-investment-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Entitlement to information about charities",
  "text": "(1) A person who requests a charity to provide a copy of its—\n(a) constitution,\n(b) latest statement of account and independent report on accounts prepared under section 44,\nis, if the request is reasonable, entitled to be given that copy constitution or copy statement of account and independent report on accounts (if any) by the charity ....\n(1A) Where a person is entitled to a copy document under subsection (1), the person is entitled to be given it—\n(a) within 28 days of the date on which the request is received by the charity, and\n(b) in such form as the person may reasonably request.\n(2) A charity may charge such fee as it thinks fit for complying with such a request; but such a fee must not exceed the cost of supplying the document requested or, if less, any maximum fee which the Scottish Ministers may by order prescribe.\n(3) The Scottish Ministers may by order exempt from the duty set out in subsection (1) any charities which meet such criteria as may be specified in the order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(1)(b) inserted (5.3.2026) by Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 (asp 5), ss. 11(3)(a), 21(2); S.S.I. 2026/98, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(1) inserted (5.3.2026) by Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 (asp 5), ss. 11(3)(b), 21(2); S.S.I. 2026/98, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(1) repealed (1.4.2024) by Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 (asp 5), s. 21(2), sch. para. 10(2); S.S.I. 2024/63, reg. 2(1), sch. Pt. 1 (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 23(1A) inserted (1.4.2024) by Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 (asp 5), s. 21(2), sch. para. 10(3); S.S.I. 2024/63, reg. 2(1), sch. Pt. 1 (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 1.1.2006 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2005/644, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 23 in force at 24.4.2006 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2006/189, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/10/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:24.571875+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}